CM firm on putting up mobile towers
NT NETWORK PANAJI Stating that there is no link between the mobile tower radiation and health hazard, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar on Wednesday said that the village panchayats, especially those...
View ArticleState govt apathetic towards Centre’s e-panchayat project
ROQUE DIAS | NT Senior reporter MARGAO The apathy of the state government towards collecting data on various fronts under Centre’s ‘e-panchayat mission mode project’ has resulted in failure in getting...
View ArticleMauvin goes hammer and tongs at Sudin
NT NETWORK VASCO Stung by Public Works Minister Ramakrishna ‘Sudin’ Dhavalikar’s claim on the Dabolim constituency for the MGP, Dabolim MLA Mauvin Godinho on Wednesday accused Dhavalikar of making all...
View ArticleGadkari to hold talks on assembly elections
NT NETWORK PANAJI Union Minister for Road Transport, Nitin Gadkari will hold meetings with the state Bharatiya Janata Party leaders as well as legislators of the party on September 22 and 23,...
View ArticleGoa to boast of top research institute
NT NETWORK PANAJI Adding another feather to Goa’s cap, Union government’s department of biotechnology will establish a research institute of national importance called Neel, an institute for marine...
View ArticleAnjunem dam reaches full capacity
SANKHALI : Bicholim and Sattari talukas have been put on high alert in the light of rising water level in the Anjunem dam, which has reached its full capacity of 93.23 metre. Executive engineer...
View ArticleMaking poll strategies:
BJP leader and Union minister Nitin Gadkari all ears to party’s state president Vinay Tendulkar with the Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar and Deputy Chief Minister Francis D’Sousa by his side as he...
View ArticleParty has prepared 2 to 3 plans for contesting 2017 polls: MGP
PANAJI: Following a thinly veiled warning from the Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar last week that if need be the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) can contest the forthcoming state assembly election in...
View ArticleSpot billing for city domestic water consumers undertaken
PANAJI: In a bid to save the consumers from paying accumulated water bills at a time, the public works department has undertaken the process of spot-billing of domestic water consumption in Panaji....
View ArticleGoan chillis to find a niche in the Gulf
PANAJI: The Goa State Horticulture Corporation Ltd has decided for the first time to export locally grown chillis to the Persian Gulf markets. The development comes in the backdrop of surplus...
View ArticleDays of kerosene as cooking fuel ending
PANAJI: The supply of subsidised kerosene is likely to end with the launch of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojna in May this year. The scheme is aimed at providing free cooking gas connections to end the use...
View ArticleDrug trial volunteer dies outside lab at Corlim
PANAJI: A 29-year-old man has reportedly died under mysterious circumstances at a pharma research centre in Corlim. The deceased has been identified as John D’Souza, a resident of Mumbai. According to...
View ArticleSalcete panchayats to be ‘out of action’
NAVELIM: While village panchayats in Salcete taluka are yet to get fulltime secretaries, the government has now issued a fresh notification to drawn panchayat secretaries to perform duty for...
View ArticleGadkari reviews political situation in Goa
PANAJI: Union Minister for Road Transport Nitin Gadkari on Thursday held discussions with the Bharatiya Janata Party legislators, to take stock of the political situation in the state. The legislators...
View ArticlePaswan in Goa to decide on contesting elections
VASCO : Union Minister of Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan, who is also president of Lok Janshakti Party, arrived on Thursday in the state on a three-day visit. He expressed his party’s...
View ArticleTravel from Goa to Mumbai by road in just 6 hours soon
PANAJI: Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday that travel time on Goa-Mumbai highway will soon be just six hours due to a four-lane road project...
View ArticleLuizinho: Congress not a rail station where one can change destination if...
MARGAO: Urging the Congress leaders to respect the grassroots-level workers, the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) president Luizinho Faleiro, on Friday, said that Congress party is not a...
View ArticleCongress is only party which can tackle terrorism: Chella Kumar
MARGAO: All-India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary Chella Kumar, on Friday, claimed that all the Congress leaders in Goa are united, and “are ready to push the BJP out, the way the British rulers...
View ArticleAround 40 children rescued, 27 bootleggers held by RPF this year
MARGAO: Nearly 40 children who were either absconding or missing have been rescued by Railway Police Force (RPF) besides making arrest of 27 bootleggers in the first eight months of the current year,...
View ArticleKandolkar sore over delay in transfer of land for horticulture project
MAPUSA: Chairman of Horticulture Corporation and Thivim MLA Kiran Kandolkar on Friday expressed displeasure over the delay in the transfer of land by the agriculture department to horticulture...
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